Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package cifs-utils (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published27 Aug 2012
- disclosed27 Aug 2012
Introduced: 27 Aug 2012
CVE-2012-1586 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cifs-utils package and not the cifs-utils package as distributed by Ubuntu.
mount.cifs in cifs-utils 2.6 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files or directories via the file path in the second argument, which reveals their existence in an error message.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-1586
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665923
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1586
- https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8821
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00024.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/27/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/27/6